we're nonaffiliated, both of us. i had a really kind of special reason to want to have the president right there. these amazing women that are marching in cuba and continue to do so for the freedom of their loved ones unjustly imprisoned, journalists and writers and people that started speaking against the government, were getting beat up and i wanted to hand him letters from the dissidents and i wanted to have direct access and he did. we spent quite a bit of time before the fund-raiser happened. giving him all these things, showing him the pictures. subsequently a lot of these men were released. but it was a big honor to have the president of the united states in my home. >> amazing. >> it was quite something. although i caught some heat from it, i would gladly do so. i was very proud that he got to become president as we talked and. how would i be critical? it's hard to be critical, because i spent three months in the general assembly, the 47th general assembly in the u.n. and it's a miracle anything gets done wit